Yay, Thursday is going to be over. That means Friday is coming. On the other hand, it means there are another 7 days to the next Friday.

Thursday is a highly dreadful day, especially today. There was chem SPA and music composition prelims to deal with, and 2 hours of higher chinese test for people like jy. My brain cells are currently replenishing their stock.

Chem SPA was ok, and I can't elaborate further. But at least, there are no more SPAs for the rest of the year. I don't know if that's worth celebrating, because there's still a whole list of papers to sit for in about 13 weeks. Vivienne was panicking, and infecting me as well. She started off her day sian-ing and scaring me. It got better after a while, but at the end of the day, she suddenly went back to the sian mode. I didn't get my 20 minutes of panic today because I thought Chem SPA was at least an hour away when it was actually immediately after math. By the time I realised and wanted to panic, the bell had gone off and it was time to get into the Chem mood.

For music prelims, we were given around 2.5 hours to complete our composition. I still don't understand why we can't bring in our work and type it into the computer directly. It's more troublesome when I can only know what it sounds like overall and the shape of the melodic lines. If I knew how to play my accompaniment and memorise it from there, life would have been easier. I tried, but I spent 20 minutes figuring out how to play the first 2 bars of my accompaniment. In the end, I gave up and decided to focus on Chem. So during those 2.5 hours, I just typed in whatever I could remember, and improvised from there. Surprisingly, 2.5 hours was just enough for me to complete everything I wanted to type in, including performance directions. That means 4 hours for actual O level should be a breeze.

After music, almost everyone looked very accomplished and happy. A long and tiring Thursday was finally over. If not for pure humans to look forward to tomorrow, I would have thought today was Friday. We arranged to meet ms tan on Saturday and thanks to ruri and jy, I recieved my much-needed dose of Totoro at the canteen piano.

My medical report is out. I wonder if anyone can actually walk off with a perfectly normal record. It seems impossible to me. When a patient is normal, his/her reading is between 5-95% of the total range. That means if the report reflects a LOW, that means you are the bottom 5%, or if it is high, you are the top 95%. I got quite a few of these, which aren't really good. The test uncovered quite a few things.

First, my suspected thalassaemia minor (blood condition) was detected, and I'll probably go for a confirmatory test soon. That was reflected in the blood test section, where some of the blood counts were not "normal".

Next, my cholesterol is low. We usually hear of people going crazy trying to keep off high cholestrol, but low cholestrol can be as dangerous too. Mom says it means malnutrition. Even my grandmother thinks I look malnourished. But I don't think so. I eat 3 meals a day, and people in school can testify that I eat rice, meat and vegetable for recess/lunch. Low cholesterol could also indicate a liver disease, and it's linked to stress, anxiety and depression (suicide). But I don't think my life is sad at all.

Also, something called bilirubin is higher than normal. It's about 50% higher than the highest in the normal range, and it scares me. It's a bile salt. Too much of it indicates a liver disease or a blocked bile duct. I've never heard of anything good about livers malfunctioning. It's usually a hopeless situation. The doctor suggested an ultrasound scan of the liver. Mom says the liver is very important, better check. It's not cheap scanning. But it's not that I hope they find something wrong just to make it worth while..

Lastly, the known fact, my blood pressure.

Thanks to the BP test in school, I discovered so much about my seemingly healthy body. I'm still trying to accept facts, but it's hard to believe, especailly when I don't see symptoms.